Aeneas Definition

ĭ-nēəs
noun
The Trojan hero of Virgil's epic poem, the Aeneid, and son of Anchises and Aphrodite. He escaped the sack of Troy and wandered for seven years before settling in Italy.
American Heritage
A Trojan, son of Anchises and Venus, and hero of Virgil's Aeneid: escaping from ruined Troy, Aeneas wanders for years before coming to Latium: he is the traditional forefather of the ancient Romans.
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Aeneas Sentence Examples

  • In Virgil he receives Aeneas hospitably, and assists him against Turnus.

  • It was represented as the entrance by which both Odysseus and Aeneas descended to the infernal regions, and as the abode of the Cimmerii.

  • Its foundation is attributed to Aeneas (whereas Laurentum was the primitive city of King Latinus), who named it after his wife Lavinia.

  • By the eponymous nymph Aricia, Virbius had a son of the same name, who fought on the side of the Rutulian Turnus against Aeneas.

  • The name (originally Ai i rr t) is generally derived from the nurse of Aeneas.

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